Fu Jun, an Officer bearing the rank of brevet President of a Board and Governor of Anhui, recommends the survey and reassessment of the arable land of his Province in order that the dishonesty which has been rife in this connection be swept away and the Imperial exchequer benefited thereby. The province owing to the rebellion of the Tsipings was plunged int" much disorder, from which it has barely recovered, while the destruction of old documents and the archives of the various cities, including the capital, Nganking, by the rebels made it impossible to el tain an accurate knowledge of the annual land taxes of the province, and hence ever since the rebellion everything has been the result of sheer guess-work, By these means wealthy citizens and large landed proprietors have liven enabled t" cheat the government yearly of a large proportion of income from land revenue and it has been found that in some cases land reported to be one mow in extent contained more than ten times its superficial area. This atuse through the destruction of the land books and archives in most of the district magis-his maladies. There is no present necessity of Pa-ké-tan-pu's resigning, hence we grant him another leave of ubsonce of one month to accomplish his objec.
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26th May.
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